Age-Friendly Cities: A Social Work Perspective

Non-Fiction: Chapters/Essays/Monographs
Written By Amanda Barusch

  • Title – Age-Friendly Cities: A Social Work Perspective

  • Author – Amanda S. Barusch

  • Genre – Sociology, Gerontology

  • Type – Article

  • Publication Date – July 30, 2013

  • Publisher – Journal of Gerontological Social Work

  • Medium – Journal

  • Available at – Journal of Gerontological Social Work (via Taylor & Francis Group)

  • Link – https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/01634372.2013.826563

  • Synopsis – This editorial makes the case for social work involvement in the movement to make cities more “age-friendly.” 

Amanda Barusch

Amanda Barusch has worked as a janitor, exotic dancer, editor, and college professor. She lives in the American West, where she spends as much time as possible on dirt paths. She has an abiding disdain for boundaries and adores ambiguity. Amanda has published eight books of non-fiction, a few poems, and a growing number of short stories. Aging Angry is her first work of creative non-fiction. She uses magical realism to explore deep truths of the human experience in this rapidly changing world.

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